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FACES - 05 (2026)Ink drawing by jayme mestieri
21 x 26 x 1cm (framed) / 15 x 20cm (actual image size)
£706.28
Original artwork description
These portraits are not constructed through line, contour or traditional shading.
They emerge from accumulation — from thousands of imperfect micro-gestures.
Each face is built through fragmented marks that resemble visual noise, residual data, or the traces of a malfunctioning system attempting to reconstruct humanity.
From a distance, the subject appears present.
Up close, the structure dissolves into uncertainty.
This tension is central to the work.
They are not drawn through control —
they are revealed through repetition, hesitation, and slight error.
Each mark behaves like a unit of human presence: unstable, inconsistent, emotional.
The image does not emerge from precision, but from persistence.
The faces appear simultaneously formed and dissolving.
They feel reconstructed rather than depicted — as if memory, time, or digital compression had partially erased them.
Recognizable, yet fragmented.
Present, yet filtered through layers of mediation.
Materials used:
ink
Details:
- Ink drawing on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 21 x 26 x 1cm (framed) / 15 x 20cm (actual image size)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#portrait#man#expressionism
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Original artwork description
These portraits are not constructed through line, contour or traditional shading.
They emerge from accumulation — from thousands of imperfect micro-gestures.
Each face is built through fragmented marks that resemble visual noise, residual data, or the traces of a malfunctioning system attempting to reconstruct humanity.
From a distance, the subject appears present.
Up close, the structure dissolves into uncertainty.
This tension is central to the work.
They are not drawn through control —
they are revealed through repetition, hesitation, and slight error.
Each mark behaves like a unit of human presence: unstable, inconsistent, emotional.
The image does not emerge from precision, but from persistence.
The faces appear simultaneously formed and dissolving.
They feel reconstructed rather than depicted — as if memory, time, or digital compression had partially erased them.
Recognizable, yet fragmented.
Present, yet filtered through layers of mediation.
Materials used:
ink
Details:
- Ink drawing on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 21 x 26 x 1cm (framed) / 15 x 20cm (actual image size)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#portrait#man#expressionism